vista users beware....

Seen while in IRC a few mins ago...

[16:45] <******> hmm, Nero and Alcohol 120 dont work with Vista
[16:45] <***> don't use vista then
[16:45] <******> how am I going to burn an XP cd to get back

Hehe.... I think most ppl would dual boot....or I hope anyway

 

Does Vista support dual-booting?

 

Bollocks.

Every betq & rc I've tried so far recognises other versions of windows
and will write a boot.ini including them if you choose the right options.

So far Vista does not recognise other operating systems than MS, which I
think is a bad marketing mistake, but at this stage it does multi-boot
with w2k & xp. I haven't tried with 9*.

 

Probably to the same extent that M$ WinNT5.1 supports dual booting - IOW
no.


Ma Hogany

 

Windows has always supported dual-booting, in the sense that you can
boot multiple (and non-Microsoft) operating systems using the MS
bootloader (NTLoadr). You just have to know how to tweak boot.ini.

Cheers,

Cliff

 

Is there a GUI for doing that?


Ma Hogany

 

a) Windows XP is called Windows XP, not "WinNT5.1". Calling it by it's
internal version number makes you look like a tool.

b) Please get your facts right. Both Windows XP and Windows Vista
happily support Dual Booting out-of-the-box.

 

I googled and found a program called image burn that will burn an image
file and it works under Vista. I downloaded and tried it and it worked
fine.

I have 2 separate OS boot HDDs and use the BIOS to choose which one to boot
from - no problem booting either XP Pro or Vista RC2.


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Hehe the fool was (apparently) using a pirate copy of XP...

 

But if you install Windoze onto a HDD that already has an OS installed,
and you're wanting to have a dual-boot arrangement, WinNT5.x will
overwrite the MBR and set up the system to only boot into WinNT5.x


Ma Hogany

 

No it wont.

And it's called "Windows XP", ignoramus.

 

Or it makes _you_ look like someone ashamed of XP and Vista's NT origins.

 

But those were only betas. Who knows if that feature won't be dropped to
meet the schedule as we get closer to final release?

 

Some worthwhile commentary (and further links) on the pitfalls of
the "piracy-prevention" measures that will become unavoidable with Vista:
<http://techdirt.com/articles/20061004/235823.shtml>.

 

Get off the grass Lawrence.

"Ashamed of XP and Vista's NT origins"?

Why does calling something by the names it is marketed under be
something to be ashamed of?

You raise a lot of interesting and valid points at times, but your
insistence on calling MS products by their internal version number or
derogatory terms like winblows and dimdows does nothing for your cause
and gives the impression that you are at best a troll and at worst a
total ignoramus.

I notice you call Mac osx and Gentoo by their better known public names,
not "Mac OS X 10.4.7 (8K1079)" and "2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R)
Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15 "

I multi-boot 2 versions of windows and 2 linux distros, and for clarity
it is better to post "Ubuntu 6.06" (giving the version number only in
context) than "Linux Thor 2.6.15-27-386 #1 PREEMPT Sat Sep 16 01:51:59
UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux",.

 

Some hope, but then again we all live in hope.

 

Nope, PAY us MS all of your $, and leave all to us in your will.

 

Eh?

Forgeting for a second how stupid that comment was, NT is a solid
foundation.

Grow up, Lawrence.

 

So why would using the NT name make you "look like a tool"?

 

I thought that that was his point.